Somerset takes first steps toward rejoining Fire Commission
Fire Chief
Each firefighter who has completed 100 hours of training would receive the incentive.
By his estimation, Jasper said the city would come out ahead by a net positive of around
"With the
The only unknown costs that the city might accrue, Jasper said, were through unscheduled overtime which, by accepting the incentive pay, the city would have to pay at a higher rate than the current rate. Jasper said that would mean around
However, he said also that a plan was already in place that monitors and reduces unscheduled overtime.
The city left the incentive program in 2009 under the leadership of Mayor
While that dispute was settled in 2012, the city did not return to the program, and Girdler resisted attempts over the years to convince him to to do so. In 2017, Girdler stated that
Jasper told the council that out of the 28 firefighters currently employed, only 10 were around during the time the city changed paychecks to compensate.
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Former mayor Girdler stated several times over the years that to return to the program would cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars -- at one point offering the sum of
But Jasper said Monday that the city's police officers have remained in their respective incentive program.
"It's never been paid the same and it never will be," Jasper said of the different departments.
"The police -- and I'm not knocking on the police -- but they are still in the incentive program, and they also got a raise at the same time in November, about
"Where my guys have kind of gotten the short end of the stick, if you want to say that, there was nothing done to the initial pay of a starting firefighter when all this happened. That incentive was not built into that pay for those guys that were hired after we went out of the incentive program. So, since 2011, every firefighter that's been hired has been shorted
The council will make the decision on whether or not to rejoin the commission after holding a second reading on the ordinance, which should take place at the next council meeting.
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